Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLet's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBy nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe